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Salt: Kitchen Cupboard Beauty Tips

posted by Cait Johnson Feb 16, 2001 2:45 am
Salt: Kitchen Cupboard Beauty Tips
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By Cait Johnson, Assistant Producer, Care2 Healthy Living Channels.

People have treasured salt since the dawn of civilization. In fact, ancient wars were fought over salt deposits!

But it isn’t only a valuable condiment for food: Salt has also been used to promote health and beauty for millennia.

Find out how salt can give you healthier, glowing skin, cleaner teeth, and more–recipes, formulas, and easy how-tos, all right here:

Salt has powerful anti-bacterial properties, and has been thought to draw out impurities. Packs made with heated salt were often used to relieve pain and swelling, and hot compresses of salt water were used to reduce infection and inflammation.

Here are some simple, timeless health and beauty tips that call for salt.

1. Gently brush your teeth with a paste of salt and water. Salt’s gentle abrasive action makes teeth squeaky-clean, and its anti-bacterial power keeps gums and teeth fresh and healthy.

2. Dissolve a teaspoon of salt in a cup of warm water and use as a mouthwash. Cleaner, sweeter mouth and breath!

3. Try this easy Anti-Stress/Detox Bath:
Toss 1/2 cup of sea salt in your tub as it fills with warm water. Soak at least 10 minutes to help detoxify yourself on every level.

4. A great way to exfoliate, leaving your skin smooth and glowing:
salt glow

5. Another wonderful bath idea, a time-honored way to heal soreness and aching joints, soothe, and deodorize:
healing salt crystals

6. Mix 1 tablespoon salt with warm water and use to spritz hair before setting it. It helps your curls to stay in longer.

7. Foot Soak: Soothe and deodorize tired feet with this easy formula:
Add 1/4 cup salt to a shallow pan or tub of warm water. Soak feet at least 10 minutes.

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Donna B.

I will try these, thanks.

Christine B.

great idea Cait, I think I will soak my feet... thanks... =)

Kelly M.

I use the salt for cooking an in baths. Im from the UK and buy it from here http://www.bobbyshealthyshop.co.uk

Barbara B.

I can remember growing up my Grandmother's believed in using salt for soothing baths, soaking tired feet and oral hygiene. Salt system is also wonderful for swimming pools, leaving skin soft. Keeping with my Grandmother's advice I use products containing Himalayan Salt and feel the benefits of softer skin and healthier gums.
www.naturalsaltessentials.com

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